I would like to say, that this razor has been down a long hard road. It started out as a very abused and broken Gillette Fat Boy. A door was broken, deep pits, all over, and a very hard life.
This is where I come into the story. I had a Fat Boy that looked decent, but needed a handle, the old one was the victim of a poor dis-assembly, and the main handle was dented badly. IMATABOR, and very kind member generously donated his parts razor to me, so I could have a working razor.
I sent the two razors to Capt Murphy, for the body transplant. All went well. That is when Capt Murphy and I got the Idea for a rebuild of the parts, that were left over. This is when the idea of Frankenfatty came along. I wanted to do a Pass-around with this razor, even after many have said Frankenfatty might get lost. I have faith in peoples honesty here.
The parts would not work together, when Capt Murphy tried to assemble them.
He sent the razor back to me, and I had many machinists look at the problem. The long rod that operates the doors needed to be lengthened. One Machine shop in Houston TX donated time to machine the rod, so it would work.
I polished as much as possible, for me, did a home Nickel plating job, and sent it back to Capt Murphy.
I wish I could have done a better job of plating, but I am not Chris, at Razorplate.com. Besides, the metal was very deeply pitted.
In a very short time, Frankenfatty will be the focus of a pass-around. Capt Murphy will post this when he feels Frankenfatty is ready.
IMATABOR, please provide any photos of Frankenfatty, that you have, and your story about his beginning life.
I will include my only picture that I can find of Frankenfatty, after the plating, polishing, and machining of the rod.
Once again, thank you IMATABOR, and CAPT MURPHY, for what you have done.
With all the man hours and machine work done to FrankenFatty, many very nice Fat Boys could have been purchased.
This is where I come into the story. I had a Fat Boy that looked decent, but needed a handle, the old one was the victim of a poor dis-assembly, and the main handle was dented badly. IMATABOR, and very kind member generously donated his parts razor to me, so I could have a working razor.
I sent the two razors to Capt Murphy, for the body transplant. All went well. That is when Capt Murphy and I got the Idea for a rebuild of the parts, that were left over. This is when the idea of Frankenfatty came along. I wanted to do a Pass-around with this razor, even after many have said Frankenfatty might get lost. I have faith in peoples honesty here.
The parts would not work together, when Capt Murphy tried to assemble them.
He sent the razor back to me, and I had many machinists look at the problem. The long rod that operates the doors needed to be lengthened. One Machine shop in Houston TX donated time to machine the rod, so it would work.
I polished as much as possible, for me, did a home Nickel plating job, and sent it back to Capt Murphy.
I wish I could have done a better job of plating, but I am not Chris, at Razorplate.com. Besides, the metal was very deeply pitted.
In a very short time, Frankenfatty will be the focus of a pass-around. Capt Murphy will post this when he feels Frankenfatty is ready.
IMATABOR, please provide any photos of Frankenfatty, that you have, and your story about his beginning life.
I will include my only picture that I can find of Frankenfatty, after the plating, polishing, and machining of the rod.
Once again, thank you IMATABOR, and CAPT MURPHY, for what you have done.
With all the man hours and machine work done to FrankenFatty, many very nice Fat Boys could have been purchased.
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I will have to use the brass stock in the photo to make a threaded post, much like the one I made for one of the members in my fatboy thread. Here is another closer photo, I apologize for the light conditions: 
